Noted trainer and girls’s rights activist Mary Roy handed away on Thursday. She was 89 years previous.
Mary, the mom of Booker Prize-winning writer Arundhati Roy, is broadly identified for profitable a landmark 1986 Supreme Court trial, often called the ‘Mary Roy Case’, which handled household property rights for ladies belonging to the Syrian Christian group. ensured equal rights. Kerala.
Upholding the supremacy of the Indian Succession Act of 1925, the apex court docket’s determination put an finish to the age-old apply of giving solely a small portion of household property to girls in Syrian Christian households.
Roy based Corpus Christi High School in Kottayam in 1967. Later the title of the college was modified to Pallikudam.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
